#tears

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. ↗

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #tears #weeping #love

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#country #free #gospel #land #mother

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#drops #joy #like #pierced #rain

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of. ↗

— Abdallah II

#arab #arab world #blood #certain #countries

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#attempt #awkward #cradle #cure #every

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#out #stain #tears #wash

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#our #shed #tears #time

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. ↗

— Bette Davis

#bored #did #i #me #never

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. ↗